Instance name "colima" too long: colima fails to start when symlink ~/.colima points to a very long UNIX path name

[davidandreoletti]

Description

~/.colima config is symlink to a dotfiles repository. This dotfiles repository full path is longer than UNIX_PATH_MAX characters. Due to this constraint, colima fails to start.

Version

No response

Operating System

• macOS Intel <= 13 (Ventura)
• macOS Intel >= 14 (Sonoma)
• Apple Silicon <= 13 (Ventura)
• Apple Silicon >= 14 (Sonoma)
• Linux

Output of colima status

colima: 0.69
limactl: 0.22.0
qemu-img: 9.0.0

Reproduction Steps

1. colima start -f
2. colima stop
3. colima destroy
4. mv ~/.colima $HOME/Documents/Developments/DOTFILES_WORKSPACE/dotfiles/
5. ln -s $HOME/Documents/Developments/DOTFILES_WORKSPACE/dotfiles/ ~/.colima
6. colima start -f

INFO[0000] starting colima
INFO[0000] runtime: docker
INFO[0000] creating and starting ... context=vm
Terminal is not available, proceeding without opening an editor
instance name "colima" too long: "/Users/davidandreoletti/Documents/Developments/DOTFILES_WORKSPACE/dotfiles/.colima/_lima/colima/ssh.sock.1234567890123456" must be less than UNIX_PATH_MAX=104 characters, but is 121
FATA[0000] error starting vm: error at 'creating and starting': exit status 1

Expected behaviour

Successful colima start

Additional context

Workaround:
With a user defined LIMA_HOME set a to short path (eg: ~/.colima_lima), the issue is gone.